The country is set to get its first high-speed rail training centre at Gandhinagar.

The centre will provide for advanced training modules on cutting edge technologies.

The construction will begin shortly after the foundation-laying ceremony is held in September,

Being constructed over railway land measuring 4,400 metres at an estimated cost of Rs 600 crore, the training centre will have a sample track fitted with the overhead electrical systems to enable testing of bullet trains that will run on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route.

While India’s first bullet train is proposed to hit the track in 2023, the training centre is supposed to start operating by 2020.